A senior Iranian cleric has urged the Muslim states to support the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip by sending them weapons to defend themselves.
"The oppressed Palestinian people can stand up to Israel if they receive political and financial support and also weapons," Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said in his Friday prayers sermons. "Over the past week, the Palestinain people in the Gaza Strip have found a large number of supporters, many of who are interested in launching Jihad against Israel," IRNA quoted the former Iranian president as saying.
He noted that Tell Aviv is suffering from delusions of grandeur, adding that Israeli tanks cannot break the resistance of Gaza.
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"Israel thinks it is more powerful than Arab states and other regional countries, while it has no weapon but the weapon of brutality," said the chairman of Iran's Expediency Council.
Citing that Hamas' newly developed home-made rockets are capable of destroying Israeli tanks and hit targets deep in the southern parts of the occupied territories, Rafsanjani said that Israel is covered with fear and enjoys no peace of mind.
He also warned against any Israeli ground incursion into the strip, which he said would be repelled by Palestinian resistance. |